16 THE BRITISH ROSES 
longer-pointed. Leaflets usually quite glabrous, though occasion- 
ally having a few hairs along the midrib beneath, pale green, 
wit orolla cup-shaped, pure white. Sepals as strongly 
pinnate as in systyla. Style-column o y prominent disc, and 
m about level with the stamens, though actually shorter. 
Peduncles always well clothed with unequal sete, usually shorter 
i } ms.” 
are usu: rge, varying from oval to oval-lanceolate, sometimes 
not more acuminate than is ustial in systyla, but sometimes 
smaller, narrower, and y long-pointed. They are remarkable 
: s well-marked species is unknown on the Continent, and 
is very local in Britain. It has been supposed to be a hybrid 
lant 
locally in Dorset and §. Devon, and is found in §. Wiltshire and 
——— It is reported from Warwick, but this county is very 
Rosa VIRGINEA 
_ Ripart ex Déséglise, “ Notes extr. de ’énum. des Ros.” in Journ. 
| Bot. 1874, p. 167. 
“A robust tufted bush, prickles numerous, dilated at base, 
surved at apex, those of the young branches less strong; petioles 
S ige of and at bear 
ts 
green above, pale: 
gland-ciliate, auricles 
